Article
Transition from haploidy to diploidy.
Nature - 23 May 1991
Perrot V, Richerd S, Valéro M
Abstract excerpt
As a direct consequence of sex, organisms undergo a haploid and a diploid stage during their life cycle. Although the relative duration of haploid and diploid phases varies greatly among taxa, the diploid phase is more conspicuous in all higher organisms. Therefore it is widely believed that dipl...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- Diploidy
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Haploidy
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Selection, Genetic